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The Mercurio volante of Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora; an account of the first expedition of Don Diego de Vargas into New Mexico in 1692
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- translated, with introduction and notes, by Irving Albert Leonard ..
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- English
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- Los Angeles : The Quivira Society, 1932
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- 89 pages, facsimile: ([91]-128 pages), 129-136 pages : illustrations (coat of arms) XII plates (including frontispiece (portrait) folded map) ; 26 cm
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- ocm03894837
- "665 copies printed for the Quivira Society." The copy numbered 654.
- "The Mercurio volante ... is here reproduced in facsimile ... from an original in the possession of the John Carter Brown Library of Providence, Rhode Island."--Introd., p. 46.
- Facsimile has title: Mercurio volante con la noticia de la recuperacion de las provincias del Nvevo Mexico consegvida por d. Diego de Vargas, Zapata, y Luxan Ponze de Leon, governador y capitan general de aquel reyno. Escriviola por especial orden de el excelentissimo senõr conde de Galve virrey, governador, y capitan general de la Nueva-España, &c. don Carlos de Sigvenza, y Gongora ... Con licencia en Mexico: En la Imprenta de Antuerpia de los herederos de la viuda de Bernardo Calderon, año de l693.
- The English translation (p. [49]-88) has special t.p., a translation of the original t.-p.